Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society
Queensland's leading prison history research organisation.
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‘BRING BACK FLOGGING!’ We hear it often enough, and there would be plenty of volunteers to carry them out, but it’s been a very long time s... -
Arthur 'Slim' Halliday rose to prominence in the 1940s as Boggo Road’s most persistent and infamous escape artist. For sheer... -
The 'Black Hole' punishment cells have become a major but very misunderstood part of Boggo Road mythology. The original No.1 ... -
boob Prison. Recorded at Boggo Road in 1907. ‘Boob’ is derived from children’s slang of the 19th century, when lice were called ‘boo... -
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) (BRGHS) SCREW. Apart from other well-known meanings, it’s a slang word for ‘prison offic... -
The following is adapted from the Encyclopedia Brittanica: 'Penology, also called Penal Science, is the division of criminology ... -
Prisoners are at the centre of the entire prison system. Without them, there would be no prisons. Even more than is the case with the... -
John Andrew Stuart (left) and Jim Finch (right). It has been over 40 years since Brisbane’s 'Whiskey au Go Go' nightclub was f... -
Many of the escape attempts from Boggo Road prison were subtle affairs, requiring discrete planning, construction of tools such as ropes, ... -
After the new prison and cellblock gallows were constructed at Boggo Road, Brisbane in 1883, that prison hosted almost every hanging in Que...
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As the new colony of Queensland expanded its frontier throughout the 1860s, new towns could measure their growing status by the presence of... -
Arthur 'Slim' Halliday rose to prominence in the 1940s as Boggo Road’s most persistent and infamous escape artist. For sheer... -
During World War 2 the small town of Marburg (about 60km west of Brisbane) had a brief but somewhat confusing role in the Queensland pris...
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